Rainy. To Painted-Cup Meadow.
Potentilla argentea, maybe several days.
Trifolium pratense.
A seringo or yellow-browed (?) sparrow’s nest about ten or twelve rods southwest of house-leek rock, between two rocks which are several rods apart northwest and southeast; four eggs. The nest of coarse grass stubble, lined with fine grass, and is two thirds at least covered by a jutting sod. Egg, bluish-white ground, thickly blotched with brown, yet most like a small ground bird’s egg, rather broad at one end, pretty fresh.
A cricket creaks.
Hypoxis erecta, maybe a day or two.
Thalictrum dioicum abundantly out, apparently in prime, male and female, some effete, perhaps a week, near wall in Painted-Cup Meadow, fifteen to eighteen inches high. I think it was a mass of young Thalictrum Cornuti leaves which had that rank, dog-like scent.
Painted-cup pollen a good while ago.
Saw, under an apple tree, nearly half a pint of some white grub with a light reddish head, like a small potato-worm, one inch long, and part of a snake-skin, making the greater part of the faeces of some animal, — chiefly the grubs, — a formless soft mass. Skunk?
H. D. Thoreau, Journal, May 28, 1856
Painted-Cup Meadow. See June 3, 1853 (“. . . a large meadow full of [painted-cup], and yet very few in the town have ever seen it.”)
Trifolium pratense. See May 28, 1854 ("Red clover at Clamshell, a day or two.”)
A Book of the Seasons, by Henry Thoreau
"A book, each page written in its own season,
out-of-doors, in its own locality."
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